Misbeliefs about non-specific low back pain and attitudes towards treatment by primary care providers in Spain: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To identify misbeliefs about the origin and meaning of non-specific chronic low back pain and to examine attitudes towards treatment by primary health care providers.

Design

Generic qualitative study.

Methods

Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted between October and November 2016 with physicians and nurses from primary health care centres in Lleida. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using inductive thematic analysis via Atlas.ti-8 software.

Results

Five themes were identified: i. beliefs about the origin and meaning of chronic low back pain, ii. psychosocial aspects of pain modulators, iii. Therapeutic exercise as a treatment for chronic low back pain, iv. biomedical attitudes of primary health care providers, and v. difficulties in the c

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Martinez E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8759168 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature